Poland's governing Law and Justice party passed a legislation on Thursday to ensure final high school exams are held next month despite a teachers' strike that has shut thousands of schools for more than two weeks. The new law was signed by President Andrzej Duda on Friday.

Germany could owe Poland more than $850 billion in reparations for damages it incurred during World War Two and the brutal Nazi occupation, a senior ruling party lawmaker said.

The National Electoral Commission has drawn the list numbers for electoral committees that had submitted the lists of candidates in more than one constituency for the upcoming elections to the European Parliament in May.

Polish teachers agreed on Thursday to suspend a nationwide strike that had shut thousands of schools for more than two weeks but said a broader protest against government policy could be held alongside healthcare workers in September.

Teachers from across Poland rallied outside the education ministry in Warsaw on Tuesday (April 23) as a country-wide teachers' strike continued following failed talks with the government demanding higher pay.

The World Jewish Congress has condemned as anti-Semitic the revival of a folk tradition of burning an effigy of Judas in the Polish town of Pruchnik.

Poland should follow Greece in stepping up pressure on Germany to pay billions of euros in damages for Nazi occupation during World War Two, a lawmaker in charge of Warsaw's reparations campaign said on Thursday.

Flights booked, suitcases packed and fed up with Brexit, ecologist Katarzyna Kociniewska is returning to Poland in search of new opportunities. Her boyfriend Radosław Stańczak will be joining her in three months' time in the northern Polish city of Bydgoszcz.

Law and Justice is in the lead and the European Coalition is close behind, according to the latest poll by Kantar for "Fakty" TVN and TVN24. The survey measured the support for political parties ahead of the elections to the European Parliament, which are set to be held on the 26th of May.

Over 18 million zlotys in restitution for 18 years of false imprisonment. Tomasz Komenda and his attorney are seeking such compensation from the national treasury. The request was filed on Wednesday at the Regional Court in Wrocław.

The Regional Court in Poznań ruled that Adam Z. has been found not guilty of the murder of Ewa Tylman. The verdict is not legally binding and the prosecutor intends to appeal.

There will be more attempts at talks between the Polish Teachers' Union and the government. The latter side accepted the invitation to sit down from the head of the Social Dialogue Council.

At least 28 people, all of them German tourists, died and 22 more were injured in a bus accident on the Portuguese island of Madeira on Wednesday, authorities said.

After the blaze in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, people from around the world have extended their support. Poland has also offered to help in the reconstruction of the building.

Central European countries are increasingly competing to grab a slice of production budgets as streaming giants Amazon, Netflix and Hulu prepare to splash out on their next fantasy blockbusters and dystopian dramas.

Even if you don't belong to the Cloud Appreciation Society, you still might appreciate these clouds in Subcarpathia. Special condition led to formation of asperitas clouds. Their beauty was caught by our viewers who sent the pictures in to TVN's Kontakt24 platform.

Police have arrested more than a dozen of football hooligans, including the vice president of the Wisła Kraków football club, Damian D. In total, sixteen people are now in police custody.

President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Tuesday that France would rebuild the fire-devastated Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, saying he hoped the work would be done in five years and the French people would pull together to repair their national symbol.

Forty nine (49) percent of respondents do not support the strike of Polish teachers, according to the latest survey by Kantar for "Fakty" TVN and TVN24. Not many people less - 47 percent - are in favour of the protest. The respondents were have also been asked how much the teachers should be earning.

Tuesday is the ninth day of the general teachers' strike. The negotiations between the governement and the trade unions have ended without an agreement several times. On the first day of the protest, on the 8th of April, only one trade union (Solidarity) struck a deal with the government. Who is first and foremost responsible for the lack of agreement? We have asked people what they think in the latest poll conducted over the phone by Kantar for "Fakty" TVN and TVN24.

Google will have to pay publishers for news snippets and Facebook filter out protected content under new copyright rules aimed at ensuring fair compensation for the European Union's $1 trillion creative industries.

Poland is unlikely to exclude all Huawei equipment from its next generation mobile networks, a government minister told Reuters, in part to avoid increased costs for mobile operators.

Tuesday is the ninth day of teachers' strike and it's also the time fro extremely important exams. For the first time in almost 20 years, 8th-graders also have to take the test to enter high school.

Distraught Parisians and stunned tourists gazed in disbelief on Monday as a monstrous inferno tore through Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral, one of the world's best-loved monuments.

One hundred and sixty two billion zlotys will be privatized. Money collected in the so-called Open Retirement Funds (OFE) are to go to individuals. Either to private retirement accounts (IKE) or to Social Insurance Institution (ZUS), depending on person’s preference. The prime minister presented arguments for the changes.

A major fire broke out at the medieval Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on Monday afternoon, leading firefighters to clear the area around one of the city's most visited landmarks.

The number of measles cases worldwide nearly quadrupled in the first quarter of 2019 to 112,163 against the same period last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, citing provisional data.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Monday that he hopes that the round table talks on Polish education system will mark a new opening. The talks are scheduled to take place shortly after Easter and are to include teachers, parents and all the other interested parties. Morawiecki also asked the striking teachers to do their best to allow students take their final exams.

The police are looking for a man who on Sunday morning, in Racibórz (Silesian Voivodeship), in one of local bars, stabbed a 23-year-old resident of the town several time with a knife during an altercation - officer Mirosław Szymański from Racibórz police informed.

Sixty-four African migrants rescued by the German ship Alan Kurdi and stranded at sea for almost two weeks were transferred to Malta on Saturday to be redistributed in four European Union countries.